What is the difference between mindfulness and meditation? Or are they the same thing? These questions regularly come up in my classes and workshops. Listening to a radio interview recently, I heard traditional meditation being described as, ‘just another thing we have to do’ with a range of less time-consuming […]
Health & Lifestyle
Keeks is a family-run online business which serves both baby and toddlers and adaptive fashion for persons with additional needs. Parents Rob and April Mullen started the business in September 2021 after struggling to find products for their oldest son Kian, who was born with a rare genetic condition known […]
“Desperation is great motivation,” says John O’Connell one of the founding trio of West Cork Distillers which celebrates its 20th year in business in 2023. “Nobody wanted us in this game, and we were desperate to succeed.” West Cork Distillers was founded in 2003 when childhood friends from Union Hall, […]
When occupational therapist Emma Connolly took a leap of faith last December in opening the first occupational therapy-led hair salon in the country, little did she realise how much of an impact her new venture ‘Flourish & Be’ would have on both children and parents in reaching important milestones together. […]



